Foreign Language Press Survey

Professor A. Steiner and his pupil, Albert Luckhart, assisted by Louis Schutt, Jr., Miss Augusta C. Schlick and Miss Daisy Bryant, gave a concert in Chickering Hall, last Monday evening.

The second annual exhibition and graduating exercises of the Jewish Training School were held on Wednesday and Thursday. The program was well arranged and was participated in by all the classes. The valedictory was delivered by Sarah Blumenfeld, her essay being "Looking Backward." T

What is known as the "Poor Jews Quarter" is near the western end of the Twelfth Street Bridge, and southward to the West Side Italian quarters. Certainly it is not an abode of ease, luxury, and elegance. Its architecture is not marked by either massiveness or ornamentation, its streets and al

The sweat shop is a place where, separate from the tailor-shop or clothing-ware house, a "sweater" (middleman) assembles journey-men tailors and needle-women, to work under his supervision. He takes a cheap room, outside the expensive and crowded business center, and within the neighborhood w

Samuel Shoeneman died June 26th. The deceased was born in Hainsfurth, Bavaria in 1837. At the age of 25 he came to Chicago. In 1875 he was in partnership with his brother, Benjamin, in the oleomargarine business. Mr. Shoeneman was also interested in the manufacture of soap and in the packing

The Lakeside Club has purchased a building lot on the southwest corner of Grand Boulevard and Forty-second street for $38,500. The lot has a frontage on the boulevard of 100 feet and on forty-second street of 150 feet. It is the intention to have plans drawn at once for a $100,000 club house.

Maurice Rosenfeld, the pianist, attended the Music Teachers' National Association convention last week at Cleveland, Ohio. He also gave a piano recital before the Illinois State Music Teachers' convention which met recently at Quincy, Ill.

Mme. Fennie Bloomfield-Zeisler sailed last week for Southampton. She will go to London, Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, Vienna, Bayreuth and the Tyrol. She will play at the musical exhibition at Vienna, and probably at a number of other places, returning about the middle of August.

Amid great festivities the B'Nai Israel Congregation celebrated the laying of the corner stone for its new synagogue yesterday afternoon, at 62nd and Aberdeen Street. Rabbi I. D. Friedmann offered a prayer at the commencement of the celebration; speeches in English and German by the Elders of

Some time ago the Society in Aid of the Russian Refugees bought the four-story and basement brick building on the northwest corner of Maxwell and Clinton streets, for the purpose of having it fitted up as a Sheltering House for the Russian Refugees. Repairs have been made on this building, an

Minnie Leahy Baer, a well-known Chicago singer, and a pupil of R. Cuttriss Wards, has been engaged for the Gilmore Concerts at Manhattan Beach this summer. She sang last Friday night for the first time.

The treasuries of both the United Hebrew Charities, and the Michael Reese Hospital are exhausted. The influx of the poor immigrants from Europe has placed a burden upon the older institutions for which no provision was made. Where ten years ago, five applicants had to be aided, there are now

Bohemian Israelites held a meeting Saturday in Alois Straka's Hall at Brown and 20th Streets. The purpose of the meeting was to create a local Bohemian Israel Branch of Alma Mater for schools in Bohemia. The session was conducted by Mr. Ed. Wintarnitz, and he was elected temporary chairman, A

The tolerance of the present day is curiously illustrated by the fact that a church edifice at the West Side is used as a house of worship both by Christian and Jew. The church is at Henry and Johnson streets and has been used for some time as a synagogue by the congregation B'nai Abraham.

The Alliance Israelite Universalle has determined to be an exhibitor at the World's Fair. The Alliance will show specimens of the work performed by the pupils in all its schools, photographs of the school buildings, products of the agricultural school at Jaffa and of the technical school at J

As previously stated in these columns, of the nominations made by the recent Democratic convention of Cook County, we publish herewith a life-like portrait of Mr. Philip Stein, who received the unanimous nomination for Superior Court judge. Mr. Stein is well known in our city as an able juris

The Executive committee in Aid of the Russian Refugees has sold the recently purchased Sheltering House for $15,000. This action was taken owing to the cholera news. No refugees are being received in the city, but the organization is still at work dispensing relief where needed.

The Jewish Training School reopened on the 6th, with an enrollment of 700. 180 being new pupils. Of the latter number, 100 were children of recently arrived refugees. An adjacent building, belonging to the School, has been arranged for a new feature, a Department of Domestic Science

Richard H. Park has just completed a plaster cast for a bronze statue of Michael Reese. The figure as it now stands in Mr. Park's studio is eight feet in height. It has not been decided whether the bronze casting will be made in America or Italy. The statue is made in accordance wit

The new temple of the B'nai Abraham Congregation on Marshfield Ave., which was dedicated on September 9th,is a beautiful edifice, and takes rank among the fine synagogues of our city. It is Moorish architecture and presents a massive appearance. It has a seating capacity of 960. Rab